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Don’t Get Cocky In Australia | Dara Ó Briain

Dara Ó Briain | April 19, 2024
Don't Get Cocky In Australia | Dara Ó Briain

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  1. @karenstrong8887

    April 19, 2024 at 4:32 am

    You made me cry laughing mostly because I remember learning but I had more of a clue than you did. My Dad taught me to swim out of Bondi’s famous rip when I was 3 but you couldn’t pay me to surf there, or swim there. I learned to surf before they had leg ropes so if you lost that board you had to get it back. We moved to Shelly Beach Road on the Central Coast when I was 13 and weekends were piling into any surfers van with your board and finding the best waves. That was when life was safer and fun. Thank you.

  2. @sonyasj74

    April 19, 2024 at 4:32 am

    I'm from Australia. Bloody hilerious 😂😂😂 Don't worry about the sharks while surfing you really have to watch out for them drop bears. They're the real deadly ones 😂😂😂 👍💕🇦🇺

  3. @hypercomms2001

    April 19, 2024 at 4:32 am

    Well mate…you were lucky the Brown Mullets, sometimes known as the Bondi Cigars did not you get you…. because an attack from one of them in the water will be make you deadly sick! THEY CAN BE LETHAL!! So be careful when surfing at Bondi….. !

  4. @martinkuliza

    April 19, 2024 at 4:32 am

    2:30 What you need to understand is
    In Australia when you say
    "You Can't !! Do that !!" WE HEAR

    "You Cunt!!!…. Do that !!"
    and we don't take the word cunt as abuse, we take it like this
    "You're a friend of mine and i want you to do it"
    THAT'S WHY HE WAS LAUGHING

  5. @sloopjohnb7271

    April 19, 2024 at 4:32 am

    Oh it gets better! Then you finally get out passed the breaker waves. Sitting wsiting for the right kind of wave. When the siren goes off to let you all know there is a shark loose. Yep! So suddenly you must get any wave to help you back to the beach.
    I like others caught the next wave. But had not learned to stand yet. Surfers going every where. When my friend who was just as experienced as me. Had the same wave but travelling at eack other. I grab my board. And turned it over. Those fins! /Blades ripped into my board. Al I knew from there was, Sky, bubbles water then sand. Repeat, Repeat, repeat. A bloody wahing machine. To end up with Life gaurds saving my life! Badly battered and Grazed, a bloody mess. On a very English Sun burnt body. PAIN! I truely thank the Surf life Savers. I was not at Bondi New South Wales. I was at as I learnt later, at Point Danger Stradbroke Island Queensland. The board was my own that I had just bought! It was now a wreck! I came out better…. Luckily! And Yes there were sharks in the water.
    I live in Australia, and that was over 50 years ago. Never went surfing again. Aussies have a "sense of humour". They told me that's where the best waves were. They were right! But for very experienced surfers. I did not know the name of the place till later! The wave I caught is called a dumper. As that is what it does to you slams you into the sand below. Crashing and rolling! Stay safe Surfers, where ever you are.

  6. @loftyradish6972

    April 19, 2024 at 4:32 am

    Oh god I can just see it. You can always tell the tourists from the locals 🤣 that being said though, all of us have looked like absolute nuggets in our time. My best moment was a couple of years ago when I learned the important lesson – bikinis' are not suitable surfing attire.

    I like to body surf, so I ditch the board and I just swim really fast while relying on my natural buoyancy, I love how I feel the power of the ocean swelling around me when I body surf, and I also have big boobs and very prominent hip bones, so laying on a board is pretty uncomfortable for me.

    Now, on this day, I was wearing a very cute floral bikini, and a rashy which had long sleeves and a bit of a scooped neck. It was very flattering. But because I'm not on a board, all of the water I'm body surfing over goes under me rather than under a board. But because my rashy was scoop necked, instead of just flowing over my rashy, it flowed into it and created a parachute. Terrible for body surfing effectively, also terrible for keeping a bikini in place.

    I catch a really good wave, all the way in to shore pretty much and stand up and my Mum takes one look at me and starts to cackle like nothing I have ever heard before. I look around wondering what has happened then look down and realise that my bikini became dislodged and untied while I was catching the wave, and had kinda, plopped up and over the edge of my rashy. One boob cup still in my rashy, and the other boob cup and all of the strings out the front.

    I tidied myself up and then never wore that combination of rashy and bikini again. Turtleneck rashy's and one piece swimwear all the way. Fortunately it happened at the dog beach, so few people saw.

  7. @ashleybellofsydney

    April 19, 2024 at 4:32 am

    It's not a matter of being confident, but intellectual. Australians RESENT intellectuals. That's why Germaine Greer now lives in Essex. Australia tried to produce a TV show based on QI (Quite Interesting, hosted by Stephen Fry; then Sandi Toksvig). A few 'celebrity comedians' auditioned, but the producers couldn't find any Aussie emcee that was funny, witty, intellectual or urbane enough to host the show — so they didn't bother trying to put it to air.

  8. @aussie6910

    April 19, 2024 at 4:32 am

    Reminds me of watching my step daughter try to reverse her dog wash trailer. Just because I've been reversing trailers up to 40ft long for 40yrs & make it look easy doesn't mean it is.
    Closest I've ever been to a surfboard is being run over by one as a kid.

  9. @quickstepz9250

    April 19, 2024 at 4:32 am

    As a Australian you should know the best spots.

    But if I rock up and I see Asians and umbrellas with huts, I ain't getting out to even check the surf. You be too busy watching people that can't swim.

    Sometimes you just wana leave em in a rift. Even when told in English don't swim there, go to the flags if you can't swim past you waistline.

    I'd never go to another country where I couldn't understand shit. They have just been told for so long it's ok. Go to Australia and just point at everything! You will get by, just have a child that grows up there and can relay the English back to you after 20 years in the country.

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